What is "inelastic"

Usage examples of "inelastic".

They consist of tough, inelastic sheets of connective tissue, and are so placed that pressure on one side causes them to come together and shut up the passageway, while pressure on the opposite side causes them to open.

Observe and account for the differences in the flow of water through the inelastic tube.

Gwen glanced at him quickly, for his voice was strangely heavy and inelastic, and an unmistakable gloom had settled upon him.

It was as if she had stripped from them the well-bred mask of those whose spirits, by long unquestioning acceptance of themselves, have become inelastic, inexpansive, commoner than they knew.

My grandfather made provisions which were inelastic and have not worn well with time.

The creature had put enormous power into his spring and lost almost none of it in the inelastic collisions.

For them is the inelastic, or but slightly elastic, movement of things.

German airships were held together by rib-like skeletons of steel and aluminium and a stout inelastic canvas outer-skin, within which was an impervious rubber gas-bag, cut up by transverse dissepiments into from fifty to a hundred compartments.

Stanton, who at this moment joined him, drew his special attention to a thin and under-sized gentleman somewhat past middle age, who mounted the steps with a tread that was as inelastic as his face was devoid of animation.

They will have before them not only the visible and human puppets, but the Church, the Inquisition, the Feudal System, with divine inspiration always beating against their too inelastic limits: all more terrible in their dramatic force than any of the little mortal figures clanking about in plate armor or moving silently in the frocks and hoods of the order of St Dominic.

The entire hockey team was taking her course, so she held a couple lectures at the rink and had the heavily padded players act out the conservation of momentum through a series of inelastic collisions.